cefalea
[sefaˈlea]
The verdict
“cefalea” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,133 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,133
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dolor de cabeza
Corpus desk
Index ES-cefalea · cefalea · Spanish
cefalea · rank #52,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,133
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cateo
Nearest frequency peer: cateo (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cefalea”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- canasto
canasto
47,872 corpus weight
- casaba
casaba
47,870 corpus weight
- cateo
cateo
47,869 corpus weight
- cefalea
cefalea
47,868 corpus weight
- celuloide
celuloide
47,867 corpus weight
- Ceno
Ceno
47,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cefalea” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cefalea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sefaˈlea] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cefalea” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cefalea is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,133 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sefaˈlea]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dolor de cabeza".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cefalea, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cefalea, spelled C-E-F-A-L-E-A.
Definition
- 1Dolor de cabeza
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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